nepal-police

Job insecurity in security forces

Nepal’s police and army face recruitment crisis due to youth outmigration, low salaries

Tikapur’s protracted trauma

On 25 August 2015, Ram Prasad Chaudhary was in a meeting with the principal of the school in Joshipur of which he...

Police stop Patan chariot pulling citing Covid-19

The Machindranath festival is usually supposed to be in May to ensure that the rain gods bring a timely monsoon. The chariot...

Only memories remain

14 years and 11 prime ministers later Text and photographs by Bikkil SthapitMany of the over 1,300 people still listed as missing...

Nepal Police at the frontlines against coronavirus

A total of 620 police across the country have been infected with Covid-19, two Deputy Inspector General working in the Nepal Police...

CIAA traps small fish, lets big ones go

Last September, contractor Sujan Poudel filed a complaint at the Commission for the Investigation for the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) against police...

Clamping down on the country

When the COVID-19 pandemic sent Nepal into a nation-wide lockdown, Nepali Police found itself in the difficult position of enforcing it.How to enforce...

Crossborder cybercrime and punishment

Rama married Raju of Lalitpur, after which Raju moved to Sydney to pursue higher education. The couple talked regularly over the internet,...

Suicide by pesticide in Nepal

Of the 25,308 suicides recorded by the police in Nepal in the past five years, poisoning was the method of choice of 6,213 and...

Sonia Awale

China gets Nepal to detain its citizens in Kathmandu

The 122 Chinese nationals detained by Nepal Police using information provided by China have been presented to the Kathmandu District Court before...